Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTime is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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